Based on a review of the present situation of the domestic and foreign developments and applications of the cloud computing, and in view of the features of the marine environment information system, this paper studies the system structure and related technologies of the cloud computing for the marine environment information. A cloud platform of the marine environment is designed and implemented, and some practical service is provided as an example for typical applications, which shows how to follow the cloud computing technology and the application development in the field of the marine information in the future.

marine environmental information  /  cloud computing  /  cloud platform  /  virtualization